Course number and name: MTSE 3100: Materials Science and Engineering Lab II
Credits and contact hours: 1 Credit. Walk in or by appointment
Instructor’s or course coordinator’s name: Dr. Zhenhai Xia
Text book, title, author, and year
Reporting Results – A Practical Guide for Engineers and Scientists, by David C. Van Aken and
William F. Hosford
a. Other supplemental materials
The instructor will provide the laboratory manual and references.
Specific Course Information
a. Brief description of the content of the course (catalog description)
Polymer and processing, computational materials, nanocomposite materials, glasses.
b. Prerequisites or co-requisites
ENGR 2332, 3450
c. Indicate whether a required, elective, or selected elective course in the program
Required
Specific goals for the course
a. Specific outcomes of instruction
b. Explicitly indicate which of the student outcomes listed in Criterion 3 or any other
outcomes that are addressed by the course.
Program/ABET
Outcome
Specific Course Learning Outcome
1. Students will learn how to conduct
module-specific processing or
computational techniques (e.g.,
heat-treatments, sintering, thin films
growth, finite element analysis)
2. Students will learn how to
characterize materials using the
different techniques specific to each
of the modules (e.g., optical
microscopy, SEM, EDS, X-Ray
Diffraction, Raman Spectroscopy, 4
points probe, finite element
analysis)
3. Students will collect, analyze, and
interpret data in teams and will share
data with other teams assigned to
other roles within each lab module.
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4. Students will learn materials
structure-property relationships for
each module
5. Students will analyze and interpret
data related to each of the modules
and present the data in the form of
original laboratory reports
conforming to research and
academic standards
6. Students will learn to relate concepts
learned in the lab modules involving
modern engineering tools to solve
practical engineering problems
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Brief list of topics to be covered
Date
Lab Week 1
Lab session
General introduction and overview, Lab safety
Polymers
Lab Week 2-4
Computational
Lab Week 5-7
Ceramic processing
Lab Week 8-10
Lab Week 11-13
Composite Materials
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